Panasonic now provide a smaller version of the VariCam S35 which is aimed squarely at the high end cinema market. The VariCam LT is Panasonic’s answer to the Alexa Mini and also competes with the Canon C300 Mark II and Sony F55 although at $18k for the body-only is a world away from the Sony FS7 pricing when it comes to the wider pro market for b-cameras and drones.
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Sony have announced a huge step up in specs for their A6000 series with the latest model, the A6300. With a completely new sensor, the camera now does a 6K full pixel readout to produce ‘perfect’ oversampled 4K video. For $998 at B&H Photo & Video this is a superb bargain of a camera.
Disclaimer: the full specs aren’t out yet and nothing is officially announced New 1D X Mark II specs (via Canon Rumors) have just come out which reveal it to shoot DCI 4K in MJPEG format (4096 x 2610 and likely 8bit) just like the 1D C. However the maximum frame rate for 4K is now 60p! However at first glance there appears to be a glaring omission – that of Canon LOG.
Comment on the forum Last week I had an insight into just how responsive Sony are becoming in rolling out support for their cameras. As users like myself and Paul Antico discovered soon after the FS5 was released the image had some issues. The very week I bought my camera Sony were in touch by email – I was then tasked to shoot some tests and send the XAVC footage to their…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJfTfsXFbLk[/youtube] The Revenant is an obvious candidate for one of the most cinematographically poetic films of the past year. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu had a documentary crew following him from the start of principal photography in October 2014, following a gruelling shoot, 20th Century Fox have uploaded the entire 45 minute documentary to YouTube. Watch it above and have your say on the EOSHD Forum.
Download original files here (note: pre-production firmware). I am really pleased to say the video quality of the X Pro 2 is seriously impressive. It’s not 4K but it’s enormously satisfying, sharp and detailed. What’s great is that now we can finally shoot moving images with Fuji’s superb film-like colour science, without having to worry about image quality.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy07XV8rEQw[/youtube] Whilst movies are a form of escapism in the sense that they’re warm and comforting, some try to use that escapism to bring us pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVBWxmawws Of the Oscar nominated films this year I’ve rounded up the best picture and cinematography nominees and dived into the technical department.